Libraries account for 10% of the book market
By Jane • May 24th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News • •According to Shelf Awareness, libraries account for 10% of book sales. Apparently what libraries choose to buy is a mystery. We should Wendy, The Super Librarian, and Devon, come talk about library sales. I know that Wendy buys for many, many libraries. Hmm. I feel an interview series coming on.
Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways.
She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation!
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32, soon to be 33 libraries. I have the power!!! And yeah, mysteries tend to go out like gang-busters. To be fair, most anything popular that falls under a genre-label tends to circulate very well.
Everyone should always be nice to wendy and whoever she is sitting with. Just saying… I think they should be nice to Devon as well.
But super nice to wendy or you know, the people next to her. Just saying…